Book Quote by Robert Rowland Smith

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has been there…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I can’t go as far as Barthes in killing off the author, but I’m with him on the importance of the reader. We are…

— Thomas C. Foster

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it?…

— Franz Kafka

“When a writer dies, he becomes his books.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved in a…

— Cheryl B. Klein

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented…

— Donalyn Miller

“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The reader of…

— Walter Benjamin

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt